Marat Salyakaev

Unity Team Lead / Lead Unity Developer

Da Nang, Vietnam (UTC+7). Remote or relocation, full-time. Working language: Russian. Salary expectations: from $4,000/month, negotiable.

Telegram: @elegantMeou · Email: mar.davidoff@gmail.com · Studio games on Steam: AstraInteractiveGames

About me

Unity Team Lead with about 5 years of Unity experience. Team Lead at Empires Battle and founder of the indie studio AstraInteractiveGames. I lead the development of four Unity games: three are heading to release on Steam (two with public demos) and one is a mobile strategy game with monetization and a custom server.

I lead teams of up to 10 people (programmers, artists, game designers): planning, architecture, code review, builds and Steam releases. Since 2025 I have introduced AI tools (Claude Code, Unity MCP) into the team pipeline.

Shipped 10+ games on PC, Google Play, iOS and WebGL.

I am looking for a Unity Lead / Team Lead position in a studio with a Russian-speaking team.

Location: Da Nang, Vietnam (UTC+7)
Format: remote or relocation, full-time
Working language: Russian
Salary expectations: from $4,000/month, negotiable

Work experience

AstraInteractiveGames - Founder, Team Lead / Lead Unity Developer

04.2025 - present · remote

Lead a team of up to 10 people across three projects at once
Architecture on Unity 6 (URP), online co-op on Photon Fusion 2
Shipped two Steam demos; taking part in Steam Next Fest (October 2026)
Builds via SteamPipe, Azure DevOps, Git LFS
Steam page marketing
Introduced AI tools (Claude Code, Unity MCP)

Empires Battle - Team Lead / Lead Unity Developer

03.2025 - 09.2026 · remote

Led the development team: planning, code review, technical decisions and code standards
Mobile turn-based strategy on Unity 2022 LTS
Monetization: Unity IAP, Unity Ads, Analytics; Addressables
Worked with the game server
Author of 1,600+ commits

MadSnail - Game Development Lead

Phuket · 01.2024 - 02.2025 (three projects)

12.2024 - 02.2025 · Multiplayer dominoes

Unity, a team of 3 Unity developers plus 3D/2D artists; authoritative server on Node.js + Socket.IO, MongoDB, Nginx (load balancing, rate limiting); token-based authentication, rankings, chat, Addressables.

07.2024 - 12.2024 · Multiplayer backgammon

Unity, same stack: Node.js, Socket.IO, MongoDB, Nginx; client and server code review.

01.2024 - 07.2024 · Mobile runner launched from a Telegram bot

Team of 6 working in Scrum
Client-server sync of progress and transactions, Telegram API, REST API (Node.js, MongoDB)
Code review and mentoring: 25% fewer bugs; Git-based CI/CD: 15% faster iterations
50,000 active Telegram users in the first 3 months

DirectumRX - Unity C# Developer

12.2022 - 12.2023 · Voronezh

Open-world educational RPG for children: enemy AI, NPCs, loot, inventory, weapons, integration with a learning platform; 25% faster level loading.

Bitgames - Game Development Lead

07.2022 - 12.2022 · Penza

Mobile idle RPG: team lead (Jira, Agile), shop, skill tree, levels, Unity Ads and AdMob.

Projects

The Last Keeper

The Last Keeper - pier and keeper's house

Horror / lighthouse keeper simulator · PC (Steam) · demo since February 2026, release in 2026

Role: project lead, 2,100+ commits, team of up to 10 people.

Stack: Unity 6, URP, Cinemachine, Animation Rigging, AI Navigation, R3, Localization, Burst.

Steam page

The Final Stamp

First-person detective game about judging souls · PC (Steam) · demo, Steam Next Fest October 2026

Role: project lead, 1,400+ commits, team of 6 people.

Stack: Unity 6, URP, AI Navigation, PrimeTween, Localization.

Steam page

Nine Lives Hospital

1-4 player online co-op, physical comedy about cat medics · PC (Steam) · release in 2027

Role: project lead, 600+ commits.

Stack: Unity 6, Photon Fusion 2 (Shared Mode), active ragdoll, Input System.

Steam page

Key skills

Leadership: teams of up to 10 people, Scrum, Jira, planning and task breakdown, code review, mentoring, several projects at once, Steam releases.
Unity: Unity 6, Unity 2022 LTS, URP, Cinemachine, Input System, AI Navigation, Animation Rigging, Addressables, Localization, Timeline, Profiler, Zenject, FMOD, WebGL.
Programming: C#, .NET, OOP, SOLID, R3, game systems architecture, editor tools.
Multiplayer: Photon Fusion 2, 1-4 player co-op, network physics and ragdolls.
Backend and networking: Node.js, Socket.IO, WebSocket, REST API, MongoDB, Nginx, authoritative server.
Mobile and monetization: Unity IAP, Unity Ads, Analytics, Firebase Analytics, AppLovin, AdMob.
Telegram: Telegram Mini Apps / bots.
Pipeline: Git, Git LFS, Azure DevOps, GitLab, SteamPipe, Steamworks.
AI in development: Claude Code, Unity MCP.

Contacts, education, languages

Contacts

Telegram: @elegantMeou
Email: mar.davidoff@gmail.com
Studio games on Steam: store.steampowered.com - AstraInteractiveGames
Da Nang, Vietnam (UTC+7)

Education

Penza State University of Architecture and Construction - Engineer (structural design, construction), 2010 - 2015.

Languages

Russian: native
English: basic (A2), fluent reading of technical documentation